"The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.”

“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”

“Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.”

“All geniuses die young.”

“Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.”

“But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.”

“Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.”

“Creative energy is more critical than learning.”

“In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.”